The wellbeing of all staff – not just teaching staff – matters. A school is a community and it cannot truly support anyone’s wellbeing unless it supports everyone’s wellbeing and leaves no-one behind. Everyone has a role to play, from the senior leadership team to governors to individual staff.
Below, I set out five areas of focus to support your own wellbeing and that of your staff and colleagues. The first of the five Ps makes the other four possible and the second is the underpinning scientific theory for the remaining three.
1, Policies
Policies inform leadership priorities and everyday practices, but they need support and practical implementation. When, last year, I surveyed school staff, leaders and governors for my chapter in The Big Book of Whole School Wellbeing (Evans et al, 2022), an alarming 73 per cent of respondents told me that they either worked or had previously worked at a school that in their view paid lip-service to wellbeing.
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